Books by Simon Young

Introduces seventy Victorian urban legends ranging from 'Beetle Eyes' to the 'Shoplifter's Dilemma' and from 'Hands in the Muff' to 'the Suicide Club'. While a handful of these stories are already known, the vast majority have never been identified, and they have certainly never received scholarly treatment.

The refreshingly new and honest book for marketers who want to uncover the truth about the world of digital advertising. Written by the owners of YouTube specialist media buyer and targeting consultancy s.media, this new book unveils everything anyone ever needs to know about online marketing and why YouTube is the future.

So Much For The 30 Year Plan is the first ever book about Therapy?, one of rock s boldest and most idiosyncratic acts, written with the full co-operation of the band.

Professor Leif Hansen, a wealthy Danish botanist, builds a pioneer ecovillage for scientists to begin research into lichen that could one day produce oxygen on Mars for future space missions. NASA agrees to help with the project and finds a suitable location for his research in Namibia, South West Africa, where he and his fellow ecovillagers can research permaculture, eco-living, and getting back in touch with Mother Nature. Unknown to him a cabal founded by surviving Nazis are planning World War Three and some of their members plan to take it by force as a haven. As the nuclear holocaust threatens their existence, the villagers resort to extreme measures to defend their precious oasis in the desert that they have strived for years to build, while battling both local militia and mercenaries. But what if the green revolution isn't what we think it is?

Tony Judt was born in London in 1948, but spent most of his career in America. He studied history at Cambridge and then earned his doctorate in France. His first major writings were about France's historical left-wing movements, particularly the French Socialist Party.

Few social historians had examined the popular religious beliefs of the 1500s at the time Thomas published Religion and the Decline of Magic in 1971. His analysis of how deeply held beliefs in witchcraft, spirits, and magic evolved during the Reformation remains one of the great works of post-war scholarship.

From the Iron Age to the High Middle Ages, the ancient Celts were an engine of change for the whole of Europe. This title lets us travels back in time to the moments when this ancient people defined indelibly the ancient, medieval and modern world. It shows that the real Celts turned upside down an area from the New World to Turkey and beyond.